Astronomers believe they have captured an image of a planet in the act of forming, something that has never before been ...

The spiral galaxy M83 is captured face-on, providing a clear view of its full structure. Chandra's X-ray data reveals ...

The fact that Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the sky over Earth, visible with the naked eye, has made it one of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped some spooky looking photos of our solar system's newest interstellar invader on the ...

Researchers stitched together hundreds of images from the Very Large Telescope to form a breathtaking photo of a nearby ...

But direct images are rare because exoplanets are dim and hide in the glare of their stars. Researchers at the Observatoire de Paris-PSL , working with Université Grenoble Alpes , used a new tool ...

Scientists have long speculated that Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, is not alone. Now, thanks to ...

Chile's Vera Rubin observatory is named for the astronomer who changed the way we think about how galaxies move.

Astronomers find that a surprising number of exoplanets could host life. ... The final images revealed three bright spots near TWA 7. One was a background star already known.